I have been appointed Project Associate Professor at the Kyoto Design Lab of the Kyoto Institute of Technology (KIT D-lab) and am working on a one-month project, re-interpreting items from the collection of the KIT Museum and Archives. On Friday, I will be giving a joint lecture with designer Julia Lohmann, who is designer in residence at KIT D-lab, experimenting with combining seaweed and bamboo as design materials.